Housekeeper - EVS Technician - Evening - Full Time

Wellstar Health System•Dallas, GA

About The Position

The Housekeeper - Environmental Services Technician provides support for routine, terminal, and isolation cleaning in a hospital. The role helps maintain compliance standards while cleaning specialty areas, including operating room suites, catheterization labs, GI labs, VARU, pharmacy compounding labs, vascular areas, and labor and delivery suites. Duties also include handling and transporting waste, recyclables, and regulated materials; using ultraviolet light devices; and replacing sharps, pharmacy waste, biohazard, and chemotherapy waste containers. Employees are trained and authorized to perform duties in their assigned areas. The position requires customer-service and interpersonal skills when interacting with staff, patients, visitors, and families.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED is preferred.
Some experience is preferred.
Fluent English; ability to read, write, and understand simple instructions in English.
Successfully complete the departmental training program during the first 30 days of employment.
Demonstrate customer-service and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, families, guests, staff, and coworkers.
Use correct personal protective equipment and lifting techniques.

Nice To Haves

Some experience.

Responsibilities

Perform restroom and patient-room cleaning according to the applicable protocol for routine, terminal, or isolation cleaning.
Follow infection-prevention protocols and select appropriate cleaning chemicals.
Perform routine cleaning and maintenance of walls, doors, glass, windows, furniture, equipment, and floors.
Remove trash and linen according to waste-stream guidelines for solid, biohazard, chemotherapy, pharmaceutical, and other waste.
Use appropriate personal protective equipment and proper donning and doffing techniques.
Use proper lifting techniques.
Comply with hospital and department rules, policies, procedures, and safety protocols.
Use ultraviolet light equipment safely and according to protocol.
Place the proper type, size, and number of replacement liners in waste containers and tie them off as required.
Greet and support staff, patients, and visitors with a positive disposition and provide strong customer service.
Work on special projects and participate in performance-improvement projects as assigned.
Document completed daily assignments, adjust to staff shortages, and cover other assigned areas.
Use the Epic system to support the flow of beds and patients, logging in and out as required.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.